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Some days were odd days. Some days you ran, and some days you found yourself in another world with nothing but an iPhone and the clothes on your back. Some days you made ice cream. But it was a rare day that Ryoka found herself making ice cream in a noble woman’s house, surrounded by […]

The darkness hides many imperfections. The nether shade conceals those who find the sun taxing and bright light an anathema. The faint light that is not truest blackness but dark shade, where only faint outlines are visible conjures nightmares for humans and those related to their kind. But some call the shadows home. Two individuals […]

A boy and a girl stood in a throne room, talking. When one fell silent, the other spoke in their place. They were twins, and they were similar enough that one could pick up exactly where the other left off. Occasionally, they would be asked a question and one would falter until the other came […]

“Baking soda.” Krshia shook her head. “I know not what that is. I have many things which can be baked, but none of this ‘soda’.” Erin groaned. She felt she shouldn’t be surprised, but she still hated being surprised. “How about baking powder? Everyone has baking powder!” Again, Krshia shook her head. “What is this […]

The inn. A place for questing adventurers, drinking, solace, and even temporary, messy love. Or just lust. In any good tavern you can find at least one mysterious figure in the shadows ready to spout off cryptic messages of doom. No pub worthy of the name wouldn’t have the potential for indiscriminate violence simmering in […]

The wind blows through my hair. It’s a great feeling. People often underestimate how a good breeze can change your day. And on this day, when the sky is blue and clear without a cloud in the sky, who wouldn’t want to be outside? The air is cool, and the breeze is better than air […]

Erin woke up slowly. She woke up to the sight of a bag full of money on her table. For a moment she thought the Goblin had left it. It wasn’t the Goblin. In fact, the mysterious bag full of silver coins was courtesy of Klbkch. Erin peered down at the note he’d written and […]

Erin sat in a chair and stared outside. It was a lovely day. A warm breeze floated through the window, warming all it touched. Except for her. She felt cold. Cold and empty. Shadows passed before her. They had names. Klbkch, Relc, even Pisces. But they weren’t important. The dead were far worse. Erin held […]

His name was Klbkch. It was what the members of other species called him, at least. Among his kind he had no name that could be expressed in words. So he thought of himself as Klbkch or sometimes ‘Klb’. It was important to have a name. At the moment Klbkch was off-duty. He had signed […]

It was a beautiful morning. The sky was deep blue and the sun shone down pleasantly. The door splinted inwards and the Goblin Chieftain charged into the inn. Erin stood up and grabbed a chair. The Chieftain grinned as he spotted her. He glanced at the chair Erin was holding and then dismissed it. His […]

Erin woke up tired and bleary-eyed. She mechanically got up, and remembered that she’d forgotten to gather any blue fruits. She looked at the bag full of food she’d dragged all the way to the inn. It was too much work to make pasta or bread. So she ate one of the sausages instead. It […]

“Uh, is this a store?” Every head in the Adventurer’s Guild in Liscor turned at the voice. Grizzled Drake warriors, inhumanly tall Gnolls and several people who looked like mages appraised the speaker who had just walked into the room. A small human. Possibly female. Their eyes shifted away in disinterest. After a few seconds […]

Erin woke up. Generally this was an ordeal. Today however, it was fairly easy. Because the real ordeal would come later. Such as right after breakfast. Erin stared glumly at the three shriveled blue fruits on her plate. She bit the first experimentally and chewed. And chewed. And chewed. “Rubbery.” It was incredibly difficult to […]

It took her a long time to clean up all the broken wood. It was just as well she needed fuel for the fire in the kitchen, but it was still a pain to pick up all the splinters. Especially when one got stuck in her hands. But she’d done it, and now it is […]

Erin stood in front of the cupboard and sighed. Loudly. “Men.” Erin paused and thought about that word. “Males. They eat and eat, and eat. And then I have to clean up the dishes. Typical.” True, she was an innkeeper. Or at least, she kept an inn relatively clean. But that didn’t make her feel […]

At some point Erin slept. At some point Erin woke up. These were minor details. What mattered was the sound. Knock. Knock. She tried hard to ignore it. But it kept going and going, waking her up from her peaceful oblivion. After a while, the knocking was too hard to ignore. Erin opened her eyes […]

It was instinctual. The black metal pot flew through the air even before the creature finished speaking. “What the—” Before the creature was struck by the flying pot it made a very uncharacteristic, very human, very surprised sound. After it was struck by the pot it didn’t make any sounds at all. The image of […]

Erin woke up with a big smile on her face. Actually, she woke up and went back to sleep several times before the sunlight got too bright to ignore. But when she eventually got up and ate breakfast she got around to the big smile. It came when she was eating more blue fruit and […]

A giant insect stood in the doorway. It had large, black, bulbous eyes, a dark brown chitinous body, and a pair of swords at its sides. It also had a huge abdomen and two long pincers coming out of its mouth. And it had four arms. Erin stared at the ant-creature. It opened its mouth […]

Erin woke up with her back against the inn’s front door. Her neck was aching and her hand was burning. It was morning. “Ow.” She held her hand. It was hurting— “Feels like it’s worse than yesterday. Which is probably my imagination.” She sat cradling her hand for a full minute. Then she remembered why […]

Erin woke up suddenly. Her hand was burning. Though her head felt like fog she couldn’t fall back to sleep. Instead, Erin just sat and cradled her hand again. She couldn’t move it or the pain would get worse, but sleeping or relaxing was beyond her as well. She could only sit in agony. Bit […]

The young woman sat in a chair and pondered. It seemed stupid. No, it was stupid. But there could be only one explanation. “When you level in dreams, you level in real life?” Erin thought about that for a moment. “Huh.” She sat in the chair for a few more minutes. Those minutes turned into […]

Erin found a stream running idyllically down a hill a few hundred feet away from the inn. Its position and relative size meant that it was the perfect place for her to gather water or even wash herself should the need arise. All things considered, it was a windfall of a discovery. She took three […]